England riots

[You kip if you want to...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSY6QlNMf18

[Lief 🗽]

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/10/riots-reflect-society-run-greed-looting

[Platypus]

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dear-England-now-whos-full-of-convicts-Yours-sincerely-Australia/201901396530758


New London 2012 Logo.

Better than the current one, anyway.

[rob in cal]

Do we have any idea of the racial makeup of the rioters, based on whose been arrested? It looks like people of all races have been part of it, but I'm wondering if police have come up with any statement about this.  The right wing of course is having a field day, claiming that this is predominately black rioting, so it would be good to see some hard, demographic data.

[bore]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/13/david-starkey-claims-whites-black

[bore]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14510329

sigh

Is there any chance that anything will be done about this or will it just be swept under the carpet by the scale of the riots?

[J. J.]

Those passing through London's courtrooms... have included a teaching assistant, a lifeguard, a postman, a chef, a charity worker, a millionaire's daughter and an 11-year-old boy, newspapers reported."

....yeah?

 http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/08/11/ukriots.accused/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

The ages of some of them are amazing.  All these particular defendants weren't kids, but adults.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14504005